On Thursday, Nov 28, 2002, at 14:08 US/Pacific, rowdyh wrote:
> Nice cut and paste. So typical of baby boomer draft dodgers to hide
> from the argument. You have no clear argument...only
> partisanship....you are Tom Delay...yet another baby boomer draft
> dodger. I posted a quite extensive argument and you decide to only
> respond to the your edited part of my post. Typical baby boomer
> nonsense. Dont pay attention to the elephant in the living room when
> your ideology allows you to ignore it. You suck
you know technically this kid is right.
I have a DD214, and an honorable discharge from the united states armed
forces, so yeah, I guess I did 'dodge the draft' - sorta like Al Gore.
But the real reason we need to defend the freedom of information act is
to collectively simplify the lives of those of us who did our duty for
reasons
of national security. If it's really all that important for folks to
want to know,
they should be able to simply file the freaking forms and get what ever
is the official story the US Government believes is releasable at this
time.
I can appreciate that so many folks who are not sure why they never
stepped up to the plate to do their duty are working hard on keeping
it hidden that they were in college, or having a bad hair day, or what
ever.
Fine, cool, privacy..... But it sure makes life a whole lot simpler
when all
one has to do is say
File the Freaking FOIA
and let them do the paper chase. At the time I really did not care to
take 'notes' about it all. Things were a little bizzy back then. What
with
communists trying to kill me, Fascist Police State, real ones, not the
mere
delusional "got caught smoking in the bathroom" types of so many
'alleged radicals' , trying to take me down , it just was not the time
to
be worrying about making sure that it was all appropriately
footnoteable.
as I note in
http://www.wetware.com/drieux/PPandE/TWAT/NITD.html
the quality of the 'the almost like the new right' has just completely
gone down hill when it comes to doing even the most preliminary
analysis and trying to organize a death threat. I mean if they can't
even do their homework on who served and who did not, how in god's
green apples are they going to be able to do the whole big heavy
lifting to work out where the extraction team is going to be, how
to get the shooter in, you know, that sense of Pride and Professionalism
that use to be a part of being a member of a 'right wing paramilitarist'
or 'radical armed extremist' group....
Do we blame this on MTV? The decline in Public Education? What????
Or have things just complete gone to the dogs....
ciao
drieux
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